# Mentio, free: Hacker News search API

> Search a term over the last 24 hours, 7 or 30 days, without a keyword.

Mentio's Welcome credit plan for the Hacker News search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 4 fields. Mentio's docs list 3: Text, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run Mentio through [our Hacker News search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 94 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.985 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free Hacker News search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
[Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/39-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Scrollhound's rate limit allows. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $2.72.
[Scrollhound's $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/25-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Scrollhound's $25 pack costs less up front than Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan.
[Algolia](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt) and [Social Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/29-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Hacker News search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentio/free
- [Hacker News search API in 2026: the 4 best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mentio.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.mentio.dev/v1/searches`
- API key: with the plan, on https://mentio.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.mentio.dev/api/searches/create-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Mentio (https://mentio.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 25
- Also pays for: 99 other Mentio calls · from the same budget: Track a keyword

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search a term over the last 24 hours, 7 or 30 days, without a keyword.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Use the service only for lawful purposes. Do not resell or redistribute the monitored content as a data product, the service is for your organization's own listening and engagement. Do not use Mentio to harass, dox, or surveil individuals, or in ways that violate the terms of the monitored platforms. Do not probe, overload, or disrupt the service, respect documented API limits.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5.80
- Enough for: 29 calls, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: term, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: range, platforms, kind, context, idempotency-key header
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/searches

## About the plan

- Plan: Welcome credit
- Who can get it: anyone able to form a binding contract, once per person

## The 36 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, post type, permalink, title, text, image, links, created at, like count, repost count, reply count, quote count, view count, bookmark count, reply to author, reply to post URL, reply to text, author ID, author name, author username, author URL, author picture, author followers, author influence, relevance score, sentiment, intents, automated, language, classifier confidence, classifier note, relevant, already in workspace, result ID, search ID, next cursor

## Mentio's plans (3)

- [Mentio, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentio/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Mentio, top-up from $20](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentio/top-up-from-20/llms.txt): $200.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Mentio, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentio/contact-us/llms.txt): 75% complete, live

## Mentio's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/searches`: [Mentio, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentio/free/llms.txt)

## Mentio's APIs (2)

- [Mentio: Hacker News search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentio/free/llms.txt)
- [Mentio: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 3 plans, GET /v1/mentions](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/mentio/free-welcome-credit-get-v1-mentions/llms.txt)
- [Mentio: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v1/searches](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/mentio/free-welcome-credit-post-v1-searches/llms.txt)

## Mentio: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [Social Fetch, $14 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/14-pack/llms.txt): $14.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Anysite, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anysite/49-monthly/llms.txt): $16.333 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Parse, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/parse/30-monthly/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Buska, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/99-monthly/llms.txt): $198.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://docs.mentio.dev/api/searches/create-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.mentio.dev/api/searches/list-search-results?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.mentio.dev/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.mentio.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.mentio.dev/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentio.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentio.dev/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentio.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentio.dev/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentio.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing